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As in the Jamaican? How did you come to that conclusion?

I thought it was a silly twist on the genre, and had a good enough cast to make it pretty entertaining. Kind of a tribute to stoners flick.

This clearly is not Obsidian's project. They are simply being contracted to do some work on it. That's a great way for the company to bring in revenue without taking the risks of an in-house project.

Thanks everyone, it was a lot of fun. I'm very lucky.

This is the same team that is running the Jagged Alliance Flashback kickstarter right now. They seem genuinely committed to good turn based combat, so I wish them the best.

My wife and I renewed our vows today for out 10 year anniversary. It was pretty emotional, lightened up by my son running circles around the pew in the church. Now I'm taking a break before the BBQ we are throwing to celebrate. You are all invited

I think you will see marijuana legalized in a somewhat controlled sense within the next 10 years. You've already got a couple states doing it. I'm already laying the groundwork to get my wife to try it. She is super against anything that is illegal, but I think I can get her to try it someday. I was never into it much in college, but there are certain activities I would like to try under the influence. She's also really against smoking in general, but I think I can get around that with those vaporizer things.

We get them out in the fields and trails where I live regularly. Unlike the coyotes, they are a real threat when encountered.

I tried it and have a friend who loves it. I couldn't get into it. It is very complicated, and pretty rough around the edges. I can't say I really gave it a fair shake, but it didn't pull me in.

Ugh, wild boar really suck. I'm not a huge fan of hunting, but if you want to go take out a few of those I will cheer you on.

Until we get some more official information, this isn't much different than that situation they had going with the Wheel of Time people. Morgie seems to think it is a new low to work on a game he is not interested in

Austria sounds like a super dangerous place to live.

So biking without a helmet is innuendo?

I'm utterly baffled when I hear people dislike Xcom, for me it was like finding a cool turn based combat drink in a desert of real time shooters. It's one of the few games I know I will replay for years to come. So yeah, I guess it is simply polarizing. I know a few folks here really enjoyed it as well. I have noticed it is mostly the latecomers that are critical of Xcom (I think when the game launched there was a thread where most of us enjoyed it, and only one or two people were disappointed.) Obviously there must have been some initial skepticism about the game to keep Boo and Melk from picking it up earlier, and that must have been justified.

That's pretty awesome. It's cool to see how they've worked with the community to get them involved in the game, definitely give me hope about the project. They really won the Bear's Pit over and that's huge.

Is that safe ever going to be opened? Honestly I have an old rifle and my wife's shotgun she used to skeet shoot with sitting in a safe. There is no ammo, they are both just collecting dust, and I never really go in the safe. I don't consider myself a gun owner at that point, not in any functional sense. It is kind of assumed if you are a gun owner that you take the gun out on occasion, maybe for target shooting, maybe just for cleaning. And that's when accidents can happen. It's all about risk versus reward for me. My gas BBQ is not the safest thing to have around my house. I have to be careful with it. But I use it to feed my family and so it is worth it. A hunter can make the same argument about a gun. But I don't see how you can reasonably argue that it is safe to have firearms in the house. You are taking a risk, you are doing what you can to mitigate those risks, but they still exist.

Ros already conceded the idea that they have different beliefs about their households, so I guess I'm just confused why it is still being discussed. I'm not really sure where the misinformation is. Guns are dangerous. You can mitigate the danger, sure, but the decision to keep them in you home (particularly when children are present) should not be taken lightly.

Woldan, why is it so important to you that Ros have a gun in his home?

Guns don't need to be for everyone. We live in a society where you can go your entire life without touching a firearm. You don't need to condemn people that don't want to give them a try, any more than they should condemn you for using them responsibly.

100k in the final 48 hours is pretty common with projects like this, so I'm not too worried. The best pushes usually come in the first couple days and the last.

It's pretty cool that at $42 I get my name thrown in the NPC naming pool and get to write a line. That's a great price.

Yeah this is a big problem for TOR. Most MMO's slowly add in new lower level areas, giving players alternate ways to progress. TOR is sort of designed to not allow that. It is too linear.

I've actually cut down on sugar and fat in the last year, so it might be more manageable now. It isn't super high, just slightly elevated. It's nowhere near needing pills or anything like that. I'd love to exercise more, but an hour a day is pretty hard to find with work and the kids. I still get my hockey time in and try to run around with my kids as much as possible. Hopefully WD can get it under control as well.

I'm dealing with high blood pressure as well, it's genetic for me. Although they tell me to monitor it and then don't explain how that even works. I can get pretty stressed out too, I comment regularly to my wife about how she is trying to collect on the life insurance by leaving her piles of clothes all over the bedroom